Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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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 bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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Those 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.
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