Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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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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