Thomas Hardy
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
age
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
-Thomas Hardy
alone
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
-Thomas Hardy
art
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
-Thomas Hardy
change
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
-Thomas Hardy
courage
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
-Thomas Hardy
death
I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
-Thomas Hardy
family
Fear is the mother of foresight.
-Thomas Hardy
fear
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
-Thomas Hardy
history
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy
hope
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
-Thomas Hardy
men
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.
-Thomas Hardy
nature
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
-Thomas Hardy
nature
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
-Thomas Hardy
patience
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
-Thomas Hardy
peace
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
-Thomas Hardy
poetry
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
-Thomas Hardy
poetry
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
-Thomas Hardy
religion
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.
-Thomas Hardy
society
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
-Thomas Hardy
success
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
-Thomas Hardy
time
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
-Thomas Hardy
war
Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
-Thomas Hardy
war
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