Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHYEssential 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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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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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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