Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
THOMAS HARDY
THOMAS HARDY
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Thomas Hardy81 quotes“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.”
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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.
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 Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy She moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy You have never loved me as I love you–never–never! Yours is not a passionate heart–your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite– not a woman!
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