Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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