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

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The 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...

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares...

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares...