A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHumanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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