Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
THOMAS HARDYLet not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
More Thomas Hardy Quotes
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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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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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Our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.
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Some folk want their luck buttered.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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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, 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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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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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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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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