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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYJustice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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