Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without 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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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