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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.

John Galsworthy

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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Been Beyond Death Kill Love Measure Nearby Without
Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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Give Itself Justice Machine Once Push Roll Some Start
It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Another Cement Continual Everlasting Feel However Human Life Onself Real Refreshment Replacement Unconscious
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Adaptability Best Condition Control Create Develop Fact Invention Men Own Quite Unable
First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Achievement Deprive First Fuse Get Hand Melowness One Other Seldom Upper
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Live Man So Think Write
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Age Death Limit Love No
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
JOHN GALSWORTHY

Affected Beaty Doubt Look Many Nothing People Quite Straight Through
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
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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Appeared Being Family First Insticny Some Strange Thing Time Unsafe
The French cook; we open tins.
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Cook Country Open Outer
Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Back Body Long Look Stretch Work
How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Greatest House Human Institution Landscape Manner Other Problem Save Type Worth
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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Brief Dead Future Life Longer Nearby Real Religion Something Struggle Take Place
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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House Limbo Pass Soul Time

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