But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
THOMAS HARDY
THOMAS HARDY
Thomas Hardy on dreams
Thomas Hardy81 quotes“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
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Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy 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.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy 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 HardyThomas Hardy 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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