It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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