Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSociety is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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We have to love because we love loving.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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