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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAnd they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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