Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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