If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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