The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
JOHN GALSWORTHYHumanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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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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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’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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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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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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