I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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