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 always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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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.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY