For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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