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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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