Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYUnder 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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