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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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 voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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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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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
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