Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYReligion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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