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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More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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