Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
JOHN GALSWORTHYIt’s not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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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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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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We have to love because we love loving.
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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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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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Beginnings are always messy.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
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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 young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
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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.
JOHN GALSWORTHY