One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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