Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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!
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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