See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHow to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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 French cook; we open tins.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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