Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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