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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.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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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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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for 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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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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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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It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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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, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree an emotion precious and uplifting.
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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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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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