To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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