the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt 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.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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