It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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