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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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The moderns do not realize modernity.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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