Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYTo dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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