There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
JOHN GALSWORTHYNot 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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