Fear is the mother of foresight.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

I have been looking for god for fifty years and I think if he had...

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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...

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men...

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men...

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.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales...

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales...

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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...

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...

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.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument...

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.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I...