The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHe was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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