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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cinta
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Keluarga
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
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Kebahagiaan
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Keluarga
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Persahabatan
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Doa
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Kreativitas
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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Doa
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Nasihat
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Keluarga
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Nasihat
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Kebaikan
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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Humor
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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Kepemimpinan
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Kehidupan
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
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Pendidikan
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Pendidikan
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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Kehidupan
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Kreativitas
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
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Kebahagiaan
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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