It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHumanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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