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Thomas Hardy Quotes
Best Quotes by Thomas Hardy (Top 10)
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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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!
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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
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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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.
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More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
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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.
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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Once victim, always victim — that's the law!
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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Fear is the mother of foresight
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there
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