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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thank You, Gratitude, Giving

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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Class, Giving
Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Giving, World

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Giving, Advice

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope, Ideas, Giving

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rights, Giving, House

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Food, Mean, Giving
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Englishman”

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Order, Giving, Alternatives

Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Editors, Giving, Safe
"The Ball and the Cross". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1909.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Opportunity, Giving

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Two, Giving

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Book, Buddhism, Giving
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Giving, World

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stars, Fighting, Giving
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kings, People, Giving

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Giving, Bees, Skeptic

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