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"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Adversity
"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Arts and Artists
"Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Atheism
"The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Books and Reading
"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Chastity
"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."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Contentment
"Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Courage
"We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought."
Author:
Gilbert George
Category:
Creativity
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
Author:
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Category:
Experience
"Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague."
Author:
Gilbert Murray
Category:
Fear
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