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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThose are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason 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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