The French cook; we open tins.
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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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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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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.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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