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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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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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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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