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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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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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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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