Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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