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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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The French cook; we open tins.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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