Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHY
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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 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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
JOHN GALSWORTHY