It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYEverything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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