See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThere is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man.
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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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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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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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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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