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.
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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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