The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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