I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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 Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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 is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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