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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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