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Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes

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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) One can hardly think too little of one’s self. One can hardly think too much of one’s soul  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Circumstances break men’s bones; it has never been shown that they break men’s optimism  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) 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  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
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