Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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