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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.
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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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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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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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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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