Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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