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 GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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