Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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