Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLove 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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