First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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