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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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