It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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