One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThose 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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