Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHow 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into 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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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