We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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