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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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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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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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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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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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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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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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