And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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