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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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