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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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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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Humility is the mother of giants.
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No man can be merry unless he is serious.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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