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 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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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