The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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