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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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