Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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