The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEarly morning does not mince words.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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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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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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