Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without 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 young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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The 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.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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