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But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.
— Thomas Hardy
Principles which could be subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. The
— Thomas Hardy
Done because we are too many.
— Thomas Hardy
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
— Thomas Hardy
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
— Seamus Heaney
Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.
— Thomas Hardy
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
— Thomas Hardy
Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it." "You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.
— Thomas Hardy
I wish I had never been bornthere or anywhere else. — Thomas Hardy
Her one desire, so long resisted, to make herself his, to call him her lord, her own - then,
— Thomas Hardy
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
— Thomas Hardy
Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.
— Thomas Hardy
So do flux and refluxthe rhythm of change
alternate and persist in everything under the sky. — Thomas Hardy
These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.
— Thomas Hardy
Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.
— Thomas Hardy
Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
— Thomas Hardy
I may do some good before I am deadbe a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. — Thomas Hardy
Mrs. d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.
— Thomas Hardy
Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
— Thomas Hardy
There's more for us to think about in that one little hungry heart than in all the stars of the sky ...
— Thomas Hardy
I went, and knelt, and scooped my handAs if to drink, into the brook,
And a faint figure seemed to stand
Above me, with the bygone look. — Thomas Hardy
The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
— Thomas Hardy
A headstrong maid, that she is-and won't listen to no advice at all. Pride and vanity have ruined many a cobbler's dog.
— Thomas Hardy
Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.
— Thomas Hardy
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
— Thomas Hardy
Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!
— Thomas Hardy
Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.
— Thomas Hardy
But no one came. Because no one ever does.
— Thomas Hardy
Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life;
— Thomas Hardy
Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will live on a long time after nutriment has ceased
— Thomas Hardy
But since 'tis as 'tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly.
— Thomas Hardy
Once victim, always victim-that's the law.
— Thomas Hardy
He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
— Thomas Hardy
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
— Thomas Hardy
( ... ) so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine.
— Thomas Hardy
Very well, said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.
— Thomas Hardy
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!
— Thomas Hardy
Always wanting another man than your own.
— Thomas Hardy
It troubled her much to see what a great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle.
— Thomas Hardy
her hand trembled, the ardour of his affection being so palpable that she seemed to flinch under it like a plant in too burning a sun.
— Thomas Hardy
I am sorry to shock you," she said. "But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years.
— Thomas Hardy
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
— Thomas Hardy
Well -- I'm an outsider to the end of my days!
— Thomas Hardy
He might fast and pray during the whole interval, but the human was more powerful in him than the Divine.
— Thomas Hardy
Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts;
— Thomas Hardy
Her suspense was terrible.
— Thomas Hardy
If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now!
— Thomas Hardy
We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
— Thomas Hardy
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
— Thomas Hardy
Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!
— Thomas Hardy
He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life.
— Thomas Hardy
I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!
— Thomas Hardy
The real sin ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true.
— Thomas Hardy
No, I am not a lady,' she said sadly. 'I never shall be. But he's a gentleman, and that - makes it - O how difficult for me!
— Thomas Hardy
Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim.
— Thomas Hardy
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
— Thomas Hardy
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
— Thomas Hardy
Tess was carried along the wings of the hours
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A great statesman thinks several times, and acts; a young lady acts, and thinks several times.
— Thomas Hardy
An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
— Thomas Hardy
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.
— Thomas Hardy
Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
— Thomas Hardy
All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics ...
— Thomas Hardy
Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes/I see the motley, mocking fool's-cap rise.
— Thomas Hardy
Judge me by my future works.
— Thomas Hardy
All romances end at marriage.
— Thomas Hardy