Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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