Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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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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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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