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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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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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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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