A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYLight-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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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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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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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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