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Make Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
- If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough…
- It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant…
- These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are…
- Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not…
- The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun;…
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or…
- Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to…
- This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
- What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail…
- What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is…
- [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
- It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then…
- The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
- Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
- The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and…
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