Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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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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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`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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