And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHYArt is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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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