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 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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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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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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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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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