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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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