The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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