One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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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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