It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBy the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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