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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

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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Advance Always Law Opinion Public
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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Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Environ Hot Iron Meddle Peril See
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Away Bear Carry Friend Go Hard Least Live Many Quest So Thing Years
It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
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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Country Deprive Evolve Himself Life Living Man People Person Power Queer Thing
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Action Can Do Done Else Man Nothing Sum
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Beauty Get Love might never Wish World
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Beauty Complete Instinct Love Nothing One Really Satisfy Sex Union
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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Breathe Day Ineftable Man Painful Spring Such Sweetness Yeaning
Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Been Beyond Death Kill Love Measure Nearby Without
There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
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!
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Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Case Degree Emotion Every Kind Known Precious Same Uplift

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