"Aesthetes never do anything but what they are…" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told."

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all…
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is…
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does…
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping…
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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