Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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