Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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