We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIdealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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 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.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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