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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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