Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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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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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
JOHN GALSWORTHY