First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason 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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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