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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.

John Galsworthy

Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Been Beyond Death Kill Love Measure Nearby Without
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Advance Always Law Opinion Public
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Over Politician Rule World
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Against Blue Dark Flame Guardian Moomin Passionate Peak Snowy Treemstand
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Live Man So Think Write
For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Art Barrier Destroy Energy Form Human Man Really Union Work World
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Another Each Stone Edifice Law Majestic Rest Shellter Us
Beginnings are always messy.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Always Beginning Messy
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Away Bear Carry Friend Go Hard Least Live Many Quest So Thing Years
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Believe Greatest Person Thing Think World
Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Armour Burnish Danger Fundamental Indespensible Individual Premotion Quality Scented Society
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never

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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