For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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 French cook; we open tins.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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