How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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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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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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