Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for 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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