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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
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Eye
Mould
Colour
According
Wants
Bring
Eyes
Within
Whatever

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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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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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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
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This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
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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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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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Bless thy simplicity, Tess
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She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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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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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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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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To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.
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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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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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There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
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Women accept their destiny more readily than men.
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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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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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