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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #avoidance #evil #far #framed

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #avoidance #evil #far #framed

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

— Thomas Hardy

#alone #galileo #had #him #inquisition

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#aged #beautiful #been #grave #her

Fear is the mother of foresight. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#foresight #mother

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

— Thomas Hardy

#constitution #her #inconsistencies #like #owes

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#blending #courage #moral #moral courage #physical

A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don't feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I'd love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I'm not one of the boys. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#because #bit #come #feel #felt

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#away #being #child #dad #family

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#fine #getting #i #into #just