Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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 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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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