He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
JOHN GALSWORTHYBy the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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