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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAnd they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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 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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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