Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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!
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