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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.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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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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The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, 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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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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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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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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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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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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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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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands then he looked up, and my companion said: He's an angel!
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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!
John Galsworthy
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
John Galsworthy
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
John Galsworthy
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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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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