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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYSummer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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