Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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