Headlines twice the size of the events.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAnd 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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