The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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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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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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