Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 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.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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