Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIdealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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