Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It 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.
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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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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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