A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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