Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSlang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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