For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThose are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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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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