The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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