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Quote by Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is p

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

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

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

Category:
Poetry
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Thomas Hardy
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Thomas Hardy

Category:
Death
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Thomas Hardy
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy

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Religion
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Thomas Hardy
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History
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The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. – James Robertson

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History

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan

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History

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. – Franklin P. Adams

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History

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. – Coretta Scott King

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History

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Three passions, simple but overwhelming, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. – Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, 1967

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Miscellaneous

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Hope

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. – Peter McWilliams

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Happiness

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. – Proverb

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