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Thomas Hardy Quotes

We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all Picture Quote #1

You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted! Picture Quote #1

Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough Picture Quote #1

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker Picture Quote #1

Sometimes a woman’s love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn’t love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong Picture Quote #1

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently? Picture Quote #1

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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms Picture Quote #1

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible Picture Quote #1

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own Picture Quote #1

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there Picture Quote #1

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits Picture Quote #1

I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity Picture Quote #1

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Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor Picture Quote #1

The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen Picture Quote #1

Above the plain rose the hill, above the hill rose the barrow, and above the barrow rose the figure. Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe Picture Quote #1

How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of? Picture Quote #1

Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn’t sense enough to know whom to despise Picture Quote #1

Anybody’s life may be just as romantic and strange and interesting if he or she fails as if he or she succeed. all the difference is, that the last chapter is wanting in the story Picture Quote #1

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There is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail Picture Quote #1

A just conception of life is too large a thing to grasp during the short interval of passing through it Picture Quote #1

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length Picture Quote #1

Strange difference of sex, that time and circumstance, which enlarge the views of most men, narrow the views of women almost invariably Picture Quote #1

As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering Picture Quote #1

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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all (Thomas Hardy Quotes) You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted! (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough (Thomas Hardy Quotes) My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Sometimes a woman’s love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn’t love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently? (Thomas Hardy Quotes) A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms (Thomas Hardy Quotes) A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible (Thomas Hardy Quotes) My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own (Thomas Hardy Quotes) There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits (Thomas Hardy Quotes) I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor (Thomas Hardy Quotes) The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Above the plain rose the hill, above the hill rose the barrow, and above the barrow rose the figure. Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe (Thomas Hardy Quotes) How bewitched I was! How could there be any good in a woman that everybody spoke ill of? (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn’t sense enough to know whom to despise (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Anybody’s life may be just as romantic and strange and interesting if he or she fails as if he or she succeed. all the difference is, that the last chapter is wanting in the story (Thomas Hardy Quotes) There is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail (Thomas Hardy Quotes) A just conception of life is too large a thing to grasp during the short interval of passing through it (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length (Thomas Hardy Quotes) Strange difference of sex, that time and circumstance, which enlarge the views of most men, narrow the views of women almost invariably (Thomas Hardy Quotes) As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering (Thomas Hardy Quotes)

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