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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
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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.
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We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.
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Done because we are too many.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
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That aspects are within us and who seems Most kingly is the King.
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Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.
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Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
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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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She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.
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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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We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
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A novel is an impression, not an argument and there the matter must rest.
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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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So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.
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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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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
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