It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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 beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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 love makes fruitful the soul.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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 talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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