If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLooking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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