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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
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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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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