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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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