Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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