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 GALSWORTHYIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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