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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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 law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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