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#1

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems

tags: aspiration, heaven, inspirational

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#2

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

tags: music, power-of-music, solitude

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#3

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

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#4

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit

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#5

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: travel

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#6

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

tags: authors, books, writing

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#7

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives

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#8

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love

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#9

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: inspirational-humor

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#10

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

tags: inspirational

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#11

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: love

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#12

“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910

tags: brotherhood-of-man, interdependence, loyalty

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#13

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

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#14

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

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#15

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: innocence, justice, mercy, wickedness

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#16

“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.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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#17

“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: listening

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#18

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, reading

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#19

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: country

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#20

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: catholic, politics, religion, tradition

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#21

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#22

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: philosophy

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#23

“We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#24

“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

tags: art, creativity, crime, critic, criticism, detectives, mystery

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#25

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Introduction to the Book of Job

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#26

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#27

“The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#28

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

tags: inspirational

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#29

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#30

“Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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