First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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