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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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