Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have to love because we love loving.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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