The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAs a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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