It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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 young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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