There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONMarriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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