I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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