The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA 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!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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