Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThose 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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