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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything it is he that gets the most out of life.
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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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The supreme adventure is being BORN
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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