More from Thomas Hardy
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy And yet to every bad there is a worse.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy 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 HardyThomas Hardy 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.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy 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.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy 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.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy
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Getting so deep in the process of creating the life I want for myself, so I’m turning out anything/ anyone that doesn’t align with my vision.
Dau VoireDau Voire I am finding the courage to breathe as I am.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign Sadness that is caused by the absence of love is deadly for the heart.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Always find a reason to love.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta You are healing yourself with poetry what could be more beautiful than that?
Aurora RaineAurora Raine Not everyone takes every opportunity that comes their way because it takes a lot of work.
Edgar DoucetEdgar Doucet I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
AtticusAtticus The lack of influence or power is more dangerous than worrying about things being reduced to nothingness.
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo
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Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
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Megan Thee StallionMegan Thee Stallion I love seeing women do what they do.
Megan Thee StallionMegan Thee Stallion You have to be unapologetically yourself. Once I was able to be proud of myself, it came across in my music really clearly.
SaweetieSaweetie Icy princess buy me jewelry if You love me.
SaweetieSaweetie He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I feel like your partner should be supportive. The relationship should be healthy; it should be fun. For all my girls looking for their type, make sure it’s healthy and make sure that whoever it is, is making you a better you.
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