Fear is the mother of foresight.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

Topics: Fear Quotes, Foresight Quotes

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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...

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is,...

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to...

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to...

Had other aims than my delight.

Had other aims than my delight.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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...

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.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences...

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far...

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 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...

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...

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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 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.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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...