All 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
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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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
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The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Thomas Hardy
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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.
Thomas Hardy
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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
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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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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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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