Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for 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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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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