We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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