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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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