Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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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.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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