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| Thomas Hardy
Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs. Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn. Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. War makes good history but peace is poor reading.Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. You was a good man, and did good things. |
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