Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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