And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWealth 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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