Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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!
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Early morning does not mince words.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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