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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
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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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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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