Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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