Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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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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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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