The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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