Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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