Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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!
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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