The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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