Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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