Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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