Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTake modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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