It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMatters change and morals change; men remain.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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 Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff.
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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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