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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.John Galsworthy
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Life calls the tune, we dance.John Galsworthy
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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.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!John Galsworthy
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Really, " said Winifred suddenly; "it almost seems like Fate. Only that's so old-fashioned.John Galsworthy
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Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act IIJohn Galsworthy
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Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.John Galsworthy
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Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.John Galsworthy
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.John Galsworthy
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.John Galsworthy
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One's eyes are what one is one's mouth what one becomes.John Galsworthy
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.John Galsworthy
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.John Galsworthy
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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.John Galsworthy
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.John Galsworthy
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The French cook we open tins.John Galsworthy
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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.John Galsworthy
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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.John Galsworthy
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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.John Galsworthy
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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.John Galsworthy