Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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