We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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