Quote by Thomas Hardy
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to

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

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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy

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

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Art
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like Ive succeeded, if Im doing something that makes me happy and Im not lying to anybody. – Kristen Stewart

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Success

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. – Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers dont come together in real groups. – Anne Rice

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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. – Charlotte Bronte

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God

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing. – Kenneth Grahame

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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. – Albert Einstein

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Humankind

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. – Eric Hoffer

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power