Thomas Hardy Quotes and Quotations
Good, but not religious-good. Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst. War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. Love lives on propinquity, but dies on contact. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. Some folk want their luck buttered. A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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