A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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 are not living in a private world of our own.
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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.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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