The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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