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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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