I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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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.
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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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