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 GALSWORTHYHe might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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