Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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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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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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