Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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