The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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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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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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