The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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