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.
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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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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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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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