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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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Only poor men get hanged.
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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.
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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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