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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

G. K. Chesterton

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Sick Togetherness
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Media Silence Validation
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fear God Man Scare Thinking
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Business Difference Ideal State System
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Bad Democracy Education Government
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Difference Hear Listening
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Duty High Man Responsibility Time
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Existence God Refuse Worship
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe People Tolerance Virtue
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hope Seem
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

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