Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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