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 GALSWORTHYAs a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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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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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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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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We have to love because we love loving.
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