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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems
- A Ballade Of Suicide The gallows in my garden, people ...
- The Rolling English Road Before the Roman came to Rye or out ...
- The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs ...
- Eternities I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. Well ...
- Gold Leaves Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves...
- A Child Of The Snows There is heard a hymn when the panes are...
- Americanisation Britannia needs no Boulevards, No spaces ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. He published works on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." For example, Chesterton wrote "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly... more »
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''The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.''
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Boy," All Things Considered (1908).
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''If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.''
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Book of Job," G.K.C. as M.C. (1929).
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''A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.''
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Book of Job," G.K.C. as M.C. (1929).
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''Half a truth is better than no politics.''
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Boy," All Things Considered (1908).
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''The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.''
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Ratcliffe, in The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 11 (1908).
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A Ballade Of Suicide
The gallows in my garden, people say,
Is new and neat and adequately tall;
I tie the noose on in a knowing way
As one that knots his necktie for a ball;
But just as all the neighbours--on the wall--
Are drawing a long breath to shout "Hurray!"
The strangest whim has seized me. . . . After all
I think I will not hang myself to-day.
To-morrow is the time I get my pay--
My uncle's sword is hanging in the hall--
I see a little cloud all pink and grey--
Perhaps the rector's mother will not call-- I fancy that I heard from Mr. Gall
That mushrooms could be ...
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