The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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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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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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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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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