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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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