It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOne’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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