It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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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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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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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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