The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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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.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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