the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
JOHN GALSWORTHYCome! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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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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To dislike the clothes and voices of other men – all this was precious to her beyond everything.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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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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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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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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