John Galsworthy on living
John Galsworthy93 quotes“We are not living in a private world of our own.”
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Early morning does not mince words.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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!
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy 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.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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