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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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