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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#endings #human #undertakings

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#against #almost #always #being #done

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. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#beauty #doubt #ever #immoral #looked

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

#deprived #did #different #evolved #himself

Ideas control the world. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#ideas #world

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#duty #easy #government #make #people

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#friends #know #merits #our #rather

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#direct proportion #distance #idealism #increases #problem

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#because #bees #belief #creed #dead

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you. ↗

— James Galway

#been #day #familiar #get #granted