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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.

John Galsworthy

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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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House Limbo Pass Soul Time
Beginnings are always messy.
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Always Beginning Messy
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Give Itself Justice Machine Once Push Roll Some Start
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dream Induldfe Life Little Must Forgive Poetry
For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Appeared Being Family First Insticny Some Strange Thing Time Unsafe
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Honestly Jewel Speech Through World Written
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Do Future Have Oen Think
We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Believe Circle Creed Enwrap Hand Humanism Men Mystery Own
Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Been Beyond Death Kill Love Measure Nearby Without
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Dismounted End Man September South Square Tax Youg
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Amount Make Prepare Sacrifice Sentiment Value
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Always Generally Jheardedness Light Made Reason Some Suspicious
The French cook; we open tins.
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Cook Country Open Outer
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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End Itself Mean Wealth
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Added Express Familiar Individually Itself Perfection Resentful Retirement Something Style
Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
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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Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Dompting Itch Ourselves Outside Previous Shut
A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
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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Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
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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Armour Burnish Danger Fundamental Indespensible Individual Premotion Quality Scented Society
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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Digestion Empicipation Equality Influence Language Leg Profession Strong Weekend Word
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place

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