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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
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 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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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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