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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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