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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More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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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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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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