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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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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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Done because we are too many.
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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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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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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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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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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.
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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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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
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We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
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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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Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
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And yet to every bad there is a worse.
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I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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