Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
JOHN GALSWORTHYthe biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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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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He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!
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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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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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