The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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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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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY






