English - Writer | May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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