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 GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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