If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIdealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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