Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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