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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

John Galsworthy

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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
Novelist
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
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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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