Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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 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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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