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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
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Kingston
John Sinjohn
Dawn
Vision
Fact
Facts
Power
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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