Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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