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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHumanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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 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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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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