the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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More John Galsworthy Quotes
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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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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind.
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The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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There 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.
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Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.
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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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It’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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We are not living in a private world of our own.
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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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