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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity for the world denied Christ's.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
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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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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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