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(573 votes) It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(548 votes) To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(316 votes) A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(287 votes) It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(279 votes) An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(263 votes) Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(252 votes) Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(237 votes) Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(235 votes) All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(232 votes) Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(229 votes) People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(220 votes) A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(198 votes) 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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1874-1936, British Author

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(179 votes) Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(178 votes) ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

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1874-1936, British Author

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(172 votes) What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(162 votes) The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(154 votes) I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(154 votes) The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(152 votes) You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(151 votes) I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(151 votes) The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(150 votes) A yawn is a silent shout.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(149 votes) I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(149 votes) Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(147 votes) Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(145 votes) The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(145 votes) Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(144 votes) There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(144 votes) Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(144 votes) The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(143 votes) Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(143 votes) A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(142 votes) White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(142 votes) The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(141 votes) Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(141 votes) There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(141 votes) The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(141 votes) Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(139 votes) When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(138 votes) The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(137 votes) People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(136 votes) Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(136 votes) The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(136 votes) Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(135 votes) With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(133 votes) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(133 votes) If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(133 votes) In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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1874-1936, British Author

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(132 votes) Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

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1874-1936, British Author

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