Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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Had other aims than my delight.

Had other aims than my delight.

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...

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.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that...

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been...

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,...

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 sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that...

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that...

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...

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...

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.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.