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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
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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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