Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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