We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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