Early morning does not mince words.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWhen 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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