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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.
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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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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