One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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