The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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