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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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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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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