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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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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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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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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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Headlines twice the size of the events.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
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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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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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