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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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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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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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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
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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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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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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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