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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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