the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square,
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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It isn’t enough to love people because they’re good to you, or because in some way or other you’re going to get something by it.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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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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