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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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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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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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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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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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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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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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