And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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