I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWestminster, 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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