Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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 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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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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