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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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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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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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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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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
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