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Thomas Hardy [1840-1928] English

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Agnosticism, Pessimism, Realism, Romanticism, The Movement, Victorian, War

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence.

Poetry, War, Age, Alone, Chance, Change, Courage, Family, Fear, Funny, History, Hope, Men, Patience, Peace, Religion, Success, Time

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Fear is the mother of foresight.	Fear	101
You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.	Funny	102
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.		103
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.		104
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.		105
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.	Hope	106
Some folk want their luck buttered.	Chance	107
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.	Men	108
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.		109
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.	Change, Time	110
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.		111
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.	Courage, Patience	112
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.	Alone, Poetry	113
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.		114
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.		115
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.	Age	116
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.	Family	117
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.		118
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.		119
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.	Success	120
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.		121
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.		122
And yet to every bad there is a worse.		123
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.	History, Peace, War	124
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.	Religion	125
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.		126
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.	War	201
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.		202
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.	Poetry	203
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.		204
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.		205
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.		206
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.		207
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.		208
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.		209

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