One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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