Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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