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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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