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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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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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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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