Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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