Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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