Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMen are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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