The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.
THOMAS HARDYShe moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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I may do some good before I am dead–be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
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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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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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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.
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You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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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.
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That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.
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