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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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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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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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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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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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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