Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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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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The French cook; we open tins.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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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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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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