Beginnings are always messy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor 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!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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