Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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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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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 building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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