Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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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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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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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.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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