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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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!
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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY