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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Religion 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.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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