For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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