Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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