Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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