Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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