A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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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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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.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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