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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYWealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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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.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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