We have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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