Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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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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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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