All Thomas Hardy Quotes
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
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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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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Thomas Hardy
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Thomas Hardy
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
Thomas Hardy
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Thomas Hardy
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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.
Thomas Hardy
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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
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My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Thomas Hardy
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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.
Thomas Hardy
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