Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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