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''The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy (1908).
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''With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 8 (1908).
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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...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Optimism of Dickens," Charles Dickens (1906).
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''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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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Orthodox Barber," Tremendous Trifles (1909).
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''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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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Nameless Man," A Miscellany of Men (1912).
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The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to
drink,
And Noah he cocked his eye and said, "It looks like rain, I think,
The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as ...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British poet. The Flying Inn (l. 9-12). . .
Faber Book of Comic Verse, The. Michael Roberts and Janet Adam S...
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''All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Giant," Tremendous Trifles (1909).
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''Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Glory of Grey," Alarms and Discursions (1910).
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Your next-door neighbour ... is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, o...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Irishman," The Uses of Diversity (1920).
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''One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy (1908).
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The Old Song
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A livid sky on London
And like the iron steeds that rear
A shock of engines halted
And I knew the end was near:
And something said that far away, over the hills and far away
There came a crawling thunder and the end of all things here.
For London Bridge is broken down, broken down, broken down,
As digging lets the daylight on the suken streets of yore,
The lightning looked on London town, the broken bridge of London
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