We have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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