Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEarly morning does not mince words.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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