For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEarly morning does not mince words.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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!
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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