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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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