Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

• Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Inspirational, Graduation, Perseverance

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• Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

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  Hands, Forever, Promise

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Fighting, Battle, Machines

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I meant to do my work today
  But a brown bird sang in the apple tree
  And a butterfly flitted across the field
  And all the leaves were calling me.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Nature, Butterfly, Apples

  Richard Le Gallienne, “I Meant To Do My Work To-Day”

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• A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Beauty, Women's Beauty, Missions

  Richard le Gallienne (1895). “Prose Fancies (Complete)”, p.82, Library of Alexandria

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• There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

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  Jealousy, Mean, Thinking

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Agency, Cynical, Religion

  Richard Le Gallienne (1895). “The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)”

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• You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Writing, Fake, Bad Writing

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• A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Able, Praise

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• To all of us the thought of heaven is dear -Why not be sure of it and make it here?No doubt there is a heaven yonder too,But 'tis so far away - and you are near.Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,O love, there is no other life - but here.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Heaven, Doubt

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• It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Excess, Fine, Worth Living

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Leaving, Traveler

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• A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Oblivion, Neighbour

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

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  Song, Spring, Flower

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Smile, Love Is, Quiet

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters,
  Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan;
  The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters.
  Happy the man.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Love, Daughter, Gratitude

  Richard Le Gallienne (1920). “The Junk-man, and Other Poems”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page

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• All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Travel, Names, Rome

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Life, Skills, People

  Richard Le Gallienne (1925). “Prose Fancies”

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• Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Believe, Race, Worst

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spiritual, Law, Space

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Horse, Hills

  Richard Le Gallienne, “Time Flies”

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• There’s too much beauty upon this earth
  For lonely men to bear.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Lonely, Men, Earth

  Richard Le Gallienne (1913). “The lonely dancer: and other poems”

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• Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

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  Long, Way, Facts

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Thinking, Journey

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

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  Hands, Romance, Enemy

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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