Hardy

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(807 votes)  A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(799 votes)  Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

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(260 votes)  The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(241 votes)  Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(233 votes)  A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(231 votes)  Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(230 votes)  Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(228 votes)  Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(228 votes)  Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(224 votes)  If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(224 votes)  It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(223 votes)  Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(223 votes)  Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(221 votes)  Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(220 votes)  The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(220 votes)  Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(218 votes)  Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(217 votes)  Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(216 votes)  Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(214 votes)  I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(213 votes)  If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(213 votes)  Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Thomas Hardy

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(212 votes)  Some folk want their luck buttered.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(211 votes)  That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(208 votes)  Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(207 votes)  Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Thomas Hardy
1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet

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(184 votes)  For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.

Arthur S. Hardy

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