Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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