Thomas Hardy Short Quotes

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I.

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To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet.

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Aggressive Fancy working spells
Upon a mind o'erwrought.

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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

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All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.

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But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

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You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!

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When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?

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You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

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If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

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Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

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Whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes.

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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

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A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

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Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

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Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the raindrop plows.

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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

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Ere systemed suns were globed and lit
The slaughters of the race were writ.

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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

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But sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience.

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Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

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To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience

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Who is such a reprobate as I! And yet it seems that even I be in Somebody's hand!

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