How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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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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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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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 of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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