See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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