English - Novelist | June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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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.
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
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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.
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Fear is the mother of foresight.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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