The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFor the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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