Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
JOHN GALSWORTHYReligion 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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