Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWealth 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Take 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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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