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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
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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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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