See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSee what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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