Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWhen Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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