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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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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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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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