Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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