The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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