It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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