Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnce admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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It 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.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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