The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We have to love because we love loving.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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It 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.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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