Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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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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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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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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