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 GALSWORTHYSee what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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