A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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All government is an ugly 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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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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