Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMemory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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