Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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 French cook; we open tins.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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