Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnce admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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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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Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel.
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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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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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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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