I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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 has no age, no limit; and no death.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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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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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