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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.
John Galsworthy
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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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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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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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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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Only love makes fruitful the soul.
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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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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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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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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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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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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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