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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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