He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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