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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

John Galsworthy

For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cigar Smoke Compose Love Men Shall Soul Texture
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
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!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Born Change New Only Out Salvation Stir
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
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 GALSWORTHY

Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Come Lancem Rst Lay Let Sky Under Wild Windmill
It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Absolutely Always Anyone Anything Consider Go Hurt More Necessary Person While Worth
Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adore Dog Eyes Feel Moment Precious Really Think
A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Faith Man Modern Only Possible
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Describing Enough Get Good Ink Movement Penultimate People Person Physical Place Sensation Spend State Time To
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beginning Ending Human

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