Thomas Hardy quotes - page 7

Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring. (Thomas Hardy)
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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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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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
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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.
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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
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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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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness. (Thomas Hardy)
The Earth, say'st thou? The Human race? By Me created? Sad its lot? Nay: I have no remembrance of such place: Such world I fashioned not.
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Ah, no; the years, the years; Down their carved names the raindrop plows.
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Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?
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Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ.
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... our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.
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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.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die...
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You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all. (Thomas Hardy)
Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?
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It may have been observed that 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.
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You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
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You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!
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