Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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