Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHYBy the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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