Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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