The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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