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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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He wished she knew his impressions but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
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War makes rattling good history.
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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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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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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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You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.
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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.
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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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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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That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
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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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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
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