There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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.

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.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

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.

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...

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.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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...

Had other aims than my delight.

Had other aims than my delight.

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...

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...

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars...

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...