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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.

John Galsworthy

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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Around Effect Everything Say
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
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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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Always Hear Last Talk
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 value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Come Lancem Rst Lay Let Sky Under Wild Windmill
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
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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Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Argument Believe Dreadful Enough Familiar Maske None War
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
Life calls the tune, we dance.
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All Dance Life Tune We

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