A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIf you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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