But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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