Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDY
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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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.
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That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!
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Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
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The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.
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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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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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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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I wish I had never been born–there or anywhere else.
THOMAS HARDY