The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible

Quote by Thomas Hardy

Topics: Evil Quotes

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.

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 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

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...

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...