Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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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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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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