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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYArt is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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