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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.

John Galsworthy

A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Bloom Blossom Flower Garden Plant Wild
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Added Express Familiar Individually Itself Perfection Resentful Retirement Something Style
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Fruitful Love Make Only Soul
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Believe Circle Creed Enwrap Hand Humanism Men Mystery Own
Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Advance Always Law Opinion Public
First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Achievement Deprive First Fuse Get Hand Melowness One Other Seldom Upper
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Eye Mouth One
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Live Man So Think Write
To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beyond Clothes Dislike Everything Men Other Precious Voice
The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Both Same Clothes Degree Demonstration Exactly High Prevent Same Voice
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Art Away Enfranchisement Itch Minute Profound Relaxation Secret Stolen
And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Better Builder Curb Honorably Life Prejudice Seek Speak Truth
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Change Matter Men Moral Remain
For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Cry Preserve Rather Rebel Sometimes Unblest
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Become Beyond Dog Muteness Peace Play So Torture Trick Utterly Value Word
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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person

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