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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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