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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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