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 GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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 houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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 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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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