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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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