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Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Nature
Loveliness
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Earth
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Love
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Forth
Delight
Less
Enjoy
Enacting

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