It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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