See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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