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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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 is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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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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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
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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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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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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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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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