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.
JOHN GALSWORTHYAs a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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