A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Quote by Thomas Hardy
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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Thomas Hardy Quotes
- If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
- The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
- A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
- The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
Best Quotes
- Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
- Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
- The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
- Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.
- It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.
- It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
- The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
- Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
- We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.