Beginnings are always messy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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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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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Love 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.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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