I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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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 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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We have to love because we love loving.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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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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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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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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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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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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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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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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