A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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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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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.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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