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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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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.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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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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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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