The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONArt is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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