the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYWealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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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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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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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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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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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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