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.
From Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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