We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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