A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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