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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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