When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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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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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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