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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.

John Galsworthy

A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bring Count Fortitude Into Life
And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Better Builder Curb Honorably Life Prejudice Seek Speak Truth
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Country Deprive Evolve Himself Life Living Man People Person Power Queer Thing
We are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Living Our Own Private World
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Come Destroy Dull Fruit Love never
Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Do Future Have Oen Think
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Direct Distance Idealism Increase One Problem Proportion
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Death Limit Love No
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Art Barrier Destroy Energy Form Human Man Really Union Work World
Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Footstep Grass Soundless Summer
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Added Express Familiar Individually Itself Perfection Resentful Retirement Something Style
For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

House Limbo Pass Soul Time

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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