Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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