A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
JOHN GALSWORTHYthe biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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