Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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