Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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