Life calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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 law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into 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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for 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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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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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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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