Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnly out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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