A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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 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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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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 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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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