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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYFirst one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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