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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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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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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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