Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
JOHN GALSWORTHYArt is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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