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“The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap,
His hair was like a light.
(O weary, weary were the world,
But here is all aright.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Love-light of Spain—hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Utopia’s quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England—with improvements,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap,
His hair was like a light.
(O weary, weary were the world,
But here is all aright.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)