Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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