We have to love because we love loving.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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