Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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