When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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