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
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  2. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. - Brian Tracy

  3. Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. Don't JustDon't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.... - Roy T. Bennett

More Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton
  1. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

  2. I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

  3. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

  4. A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

  5. Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

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