We are not living in a private world of our own.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA 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!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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