If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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