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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYJustice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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 an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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