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Thomas Hardy | war

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.

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

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can’t get out of it if we would.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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

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

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

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.