Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThese are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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