It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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