If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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But, unto the storeOf human deeds divine in all but name,
Was it not worth a little hour or more
To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came
To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be
You love me not.
Thomas Hardy
One pondered on the life of man,
His hopes, his endings, and began
To rate the Market's sordid war
As something scarce worth living for.
Thomas Hardy
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Thomas Hardy
O memory, where is now my youth,
Who used to say that life was truth?
Thomas Hardy
This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited.
Thomas Hardy
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