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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLooking 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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 French cook; we open tins.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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