For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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