Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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