Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHow 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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