If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
JOHN GALSWORTHYMen are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Such was not quite the condition of Timothy’s on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy’s soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte’s body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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