Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for 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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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