It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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