We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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