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 GALSWORTHYThe bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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