John Galsworthy
Author
1867-08-14
Quotes by John Galsworthy
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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. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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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 drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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