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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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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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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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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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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
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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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