Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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