As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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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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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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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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 could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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