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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
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John Galsworthy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 14
Died: 1933
Died: January 31
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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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If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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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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The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
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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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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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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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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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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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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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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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We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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