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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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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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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal and it is right for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
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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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Humility is the mother of giants.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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There is a case for telling the truth there is a case for avoiding the scandal but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not) it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
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