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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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 mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.
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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
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