It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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