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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!

John Galsworthy

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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Around Effect Everything Say
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Corpse Dead Deed From Heap Leave Memory Sense So Under Vague
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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Better Builder Curb Honorably Life Prejudice Seek Speak Truth
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Over Politician Rule World
Life calls the tune, we dance.
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All Dance Life Tune We
The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Anything Bicycle Country Influence Manner Moral More Movement Person Princess Responsible Second Since Under
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Believe Circle Creed Enwrap Hand Humanism Men Mystery Own
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beginning Ending Human
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Dawn Fertilise Forgive Indulge Little Power
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Even More Nature One Preference Reveal Side Work
First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Achievement Deprive First Fuse Get Hand Melowness One Other Seldom Upper
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beautiful Horse Impression Nothing Quite Still Thoroughbred Under
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Both Same Clothes Degree Demonstration Exactly High Prevent Same Voice
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position

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