Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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