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John Galsworthy Inspirational Quotes (40)

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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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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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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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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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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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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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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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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
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