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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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