Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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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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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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