Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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