Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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