It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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