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.
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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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