Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDYDo not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.
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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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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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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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The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
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To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
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