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

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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

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

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

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...

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,...

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the...

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the...

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure...

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.

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,...

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

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

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