We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHY