the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Wealth 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.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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One’s eyes are what one is, one’s mouth is what one becomes.
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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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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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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