Life calls the tune, we dance.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly love makes fruitful the soul.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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