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G. K. Chesterton Quotes

«The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.»
«Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.»
«You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.»
«One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.»
«Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.»
«The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.»
«Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.»
«All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.»
«Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.»
«The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by mistake.»