We have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHYUnder its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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