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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
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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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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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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.
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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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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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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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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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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.
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