A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe French cook; we open tins.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Those 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.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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