Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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