"Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Courage
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"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Neighbors
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Love
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"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Apologies
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"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Life and Living
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"Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Juries
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"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Growth
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"The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Gold
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"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Angels
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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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Education
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Dullness
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"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."

Mother Teresa on Sympathy
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Problems
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"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Speakers and Speaking
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Argument
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Courage
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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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Contentment
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"I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Conflict
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Christians and Christianity
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Adventure
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"No man knows he is young while he is young."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Youth
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"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Wonder
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Action
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"We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Bigotry
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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Thoughts and Thinking
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Truth
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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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Wives
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

Lincoln, Abraham on Justice
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"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

Lincoln, Abraham on God
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"Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood."

Lincoln, Abraham on Glory
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"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

Lincoln, Abraham on Ancestry
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on Friends and Friendship
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on Fools and Foolishness
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."

Lincoln, Abraham on Fear
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"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

Lincoln, Abraham on Failure
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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Lincoln, Abraham on Faces
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"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."

Lincoln, Abraham on Excellence
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"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

Lincoln, Abraham on Enjoyment
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on Dogs
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