The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Those 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.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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A 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!
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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