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Thomas Hardy
June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928
Nationality: English
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: English Novelist

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.

   

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

   

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

   

Some folk want their luck buttered.

   

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

   

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

   

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

   

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

   

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

   

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

   

Fear is the mother of foresight.

   

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

   

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