It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYNot 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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