Thomas Hardy Till Quotations

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

Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.