Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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