Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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