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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHeadlines twice the size of the events.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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