The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
JOHN GALSWORTHYArt is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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.
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