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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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