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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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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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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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