Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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