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 GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beginnings are always messy.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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