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

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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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...

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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...

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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...

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Had other aims than my delight.

Had other aims than my delight.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread...

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...