Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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