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!
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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