Matters change and morals change; men remain.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are not living in a private world of our own.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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