It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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