Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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