The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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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.

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...

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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...

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.

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.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of...

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.

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

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...

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.

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

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

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...

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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.

The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings...

The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings...

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe,...

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe,...