We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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