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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.
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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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