Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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 isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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 is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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