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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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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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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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