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 GALSWORTHYPublic opinion’s always in advance of the law.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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