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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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