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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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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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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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