We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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