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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAnd they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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