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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one
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There 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.
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
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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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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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All romances end at marriage.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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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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A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
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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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She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
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Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
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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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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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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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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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Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.
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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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