One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYA man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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Early morning does not mince words.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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