Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTake 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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