Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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