A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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 building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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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 are not living in a private world of our own.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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