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

Quote by Thomas Hardy

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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...

You was a good man, and did good things.

You was a good man, and did good things.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

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.

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...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations...

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...

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.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

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...

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.

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...