Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDYThere 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.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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.
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So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.
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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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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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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
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All romances end at marriage.
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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.
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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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If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
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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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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.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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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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That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
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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.
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My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
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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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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can’t give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop’s license to receive it.
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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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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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When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second 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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