The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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