Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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