Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSlang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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There 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.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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