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 GALSWORTHYIt`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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