Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Thomas Hardy
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy
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.
Thomas Hardy
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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
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.
Thomas Hardy
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Thomas Hardy
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy
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
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
Thomas Hardy
You was a good man, and did good things.
Thomas Hardy
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