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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
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Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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Bless thy simplicity, Tess
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I agree to the conditions, Angel because you know best what my punishment ought to be only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!
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To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.
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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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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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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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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.
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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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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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