Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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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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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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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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