One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSee what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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!
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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 faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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