Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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