English - Writer | May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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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.
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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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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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A yawn is a silent shout.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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.
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