Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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