the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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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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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’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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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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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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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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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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