It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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We have to love because we love loving.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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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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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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