A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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