Beginnings are always messy.
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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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