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.
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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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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.
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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.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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