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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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 man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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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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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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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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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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