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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, 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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, 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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
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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. We have to love because we love loving.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands then he looked up, and my companion said: He's an angel!
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, 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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