One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYJustice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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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.
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