Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
JOHN GALSWORTHY
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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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Only love makes fruitful the soul.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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