It 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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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