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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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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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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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