A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
JOHN GALSWORTHYBeginnings are always messy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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