The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
JOHN GALSWORTHYMemory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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