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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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