We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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 French cook; we open tins.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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