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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy

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!
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Born Change New Only Out Salvation Stir
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Age Change New Nottle Old Season Stir Wine
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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Beneath Calm Careless Flash Hidden Moment Nature Ood Ordinary Passion Reveal Spring Violent
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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Achievement Deprive First Fuse Get Hand Melowness One Other Seldom Upper
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Dismounted End Man September South Square Tax Youg
To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Beyond Clothes Dislike Everything Men Other Precious Voice
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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Characteristics Essential Force Gentlemen Himself Horror Other Place Position
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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Beauty Mean One Other Perhaps Person
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Aspiration Distance Drink One Problem Proportion Wine
Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Atmosphere Capture Condition Country For Kept People Quote Style Unchanged
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.
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Against Blue Dark Flame Guardian Moomin Passionate Peak Snowy Treemstand
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Fritful Love Make Only Soul
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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Born Flower Hot Hour House Love Night Planet Seed Sprung Sunshine Well Wild
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Action Can Do Done Else Man Nothing Sum
One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Become Eye Mouth One
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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Absolutely Always Anyone Anything Consider Go Hurt More Necessary Person While Worth

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