Early morning does not mince words.
JOHN GALSWORTHYOnce admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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