Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSlang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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