Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHYI think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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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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