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

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and...

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending...

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly...

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly...

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

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

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that...

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that...

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

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

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

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may...

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

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

One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man...

One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

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

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...

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving...

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.