Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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We have to love because we love loving.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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