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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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 truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
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At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, Life is not worth living. We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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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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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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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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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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Government has become ungovernable that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
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