The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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It 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.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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It 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.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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