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«'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it, / And pay a million priests to bring it. / After two thousand years of mass / We've got as far as poison-gas.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
a million, gas, Mass, poison gas, priests, thousand million, Two thousand
«You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!»
«The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible»
«There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.»
«A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.»
«A star looks down at me, / And says: `Here I and you / Stand, each in our degree: / What do you mean to do?'»
«Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.»
«The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
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Parents
| Keywords:
at bottom, class feeling, excessive, exclusiveness, ism, Save the Children
«I am the family face; / Flesh perishes, I live on, / Projecting trait and trace / Through time to times anon, / And leaping from place to place / Over oblivion.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
anon, flesh, leaping, live on, oblivion, perishes, projecting, The Family, trace, trait
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