It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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Westminster, 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.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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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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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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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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