Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
JOHN GALSWORTHYTake 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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