We have to love because we love loving.
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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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