And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
JOHN GALSWORTHYthe biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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