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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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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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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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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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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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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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