The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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 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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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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