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“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.”

Thomas Hardy · History

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Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Art

Thomas Hardy

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Hope

Thomas Hardy

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Loneliness

Thomas Hardy

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Death