Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYReligion 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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