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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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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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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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He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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