When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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.
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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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