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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
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It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
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The moderns do not realize modernity.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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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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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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