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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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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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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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