Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWestminster, 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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