Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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