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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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