See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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There 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.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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