Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Take 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.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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