It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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