Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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