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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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 one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
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