Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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