Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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