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Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half a crown (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that’s saying a good deal (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close? (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibles of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession (Thomas Hardy Quotes)
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed (Thomas Hardy Quotes)