Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThose are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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