See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHonesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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 law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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