Thomas Hardy Quotes
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Some folk want their luck buttered. That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. 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. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. 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. You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. You was a good man, and did good things.
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