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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
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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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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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