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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not) it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
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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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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Plato was right, but not quite right.
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