The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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