“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“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
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“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“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
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“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“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
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“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conflict
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“I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Adversity
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“Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“No man knows he is young while he is young.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth