Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLife calls the tune, we dance.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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