Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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