Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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