I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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