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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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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.
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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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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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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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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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