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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
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