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185 Inspirational quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

• And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
• The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
• And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
• I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
• It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
• The simplification of anything is always sensational.
• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book…
• 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.
• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
• All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
• The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
• People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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