The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove has no age, no limit; and no death.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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