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Essential characteristics of a gentleman The will to put himself in the place of others the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think.
John Galsworthy
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
John Galsworthy
When a man with the constitution of Montague Dartie has exercised self control for months from religious motives, and remains unrewarded, he does not curse God and die, he curses God and lives, to the distress of his family.
John Galsworthy
Even grief sobbed itself out in time only Time was good for sorrow--Time who saw the passing of each mood, each emotion in turn Time the layer-to-rest.
John Galsworthy
Beginnings are always messy.
John Galsworthy
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
John Galsworthy
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Based on Keywords: matter-of-fact
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
John Searle
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. Nixon
But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.
Lynn Redgrave
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman The will to put himself in the place of others the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think.
John Galsworthy
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
John Galsworthy
When a man with the constitution of Montague Dartie has exercised self control for months from religious motives, and remains unrewarded, he does not curse God and die, he curses God and lives, to the distress of his family.
John Galsworthy
Even grief sobbed itself out in time only Time was good for sorrow--Time who saw the passing of each mood, each emotion in turn Time the layer-to-rest.
John Galsworthy
Beginnings are always messy.
John Galsworthy
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
John Galsworthy
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Related Authors: Ken Follett - Jackie Collins - Virginia Woolf - C. S. Lewis - Aesop - Henry David Thoreau - Alvin Toffler - Joseph Campbell
Based on Keywords: matter-of-fact
I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."
John Searle
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Richard M. Nixon
But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.
Lynn Redgrave