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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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