Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHonesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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