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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMen are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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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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