The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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