Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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 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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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