The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHumanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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