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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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