See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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