Thomas Hardy Quotes

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• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

  Thomas Hardy

  Change, Time, Surprise

  Thomas Hardy, Joanna Cullen Brown (1990). “Let me enjoy the earth: Thomas Hardy and nature”

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• Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

  Thomas Hardy

  Women, Believe, Listening

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• Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

  Thomas Hardy

  Pain, Drama, Episodes

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• Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

  Thomas Hardy

  Integrity, Ethics, Morality

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Heaven, Religion

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• To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

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  Voice, Tree, Woods

  Thomas Hardy (2011). “Under the Greenwood Tree: Or the Mellstock Quire: a Rural Painting of the Dutch School”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

  Thomas Hardy

  Distance, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1764, Delphi Classics

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• And yet to every bad there is a worse.

  Thomas Hardy

  Criminals, Criminal Mind, Mind Opening

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Woodlanders”, p.238, Xist Publishing

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• If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

  Thomas Hardy

  Acceptance, Looks, Anarchy

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Real, People, Honor

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• The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

  Thomas Hardy

  Novelists, Poet, Shows

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.197, Penguin

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• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

  Thomas Hardy

  Hope, Disappointment, Scar

  Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”

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• The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

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  Heart, Hands, Perfect

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• Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

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  Tess Of The D Urbervilles, Lays

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy

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• The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

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  Stars, Sky, Pulse

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.12, e-artnow

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• Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

  Thomas Hardy

  Selfish, Successful, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.324, 谷月社

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• You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

  Thomas Hardy

  Love You, Heart, Flames

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “JUDE THE OBSCURE (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.307, e-artnow

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• Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

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  Death, Fear, Bed

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.69, 谷月社

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• The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

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  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Jude the Obscure pt. 5, ch. 3 (1896)

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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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  Children, Views, Games

  Notebook, 1 Jan. 1902

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• I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

  Thomas Hardy

  Love You, Long, Wanting You

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• ...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

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  Strong, Judgement, Sometimes

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.6, Diversion Books

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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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  Strength, Strong Women, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Thomas Hardy (1874). “Far From the Madding Crowd”, p.221, Henry Holt

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• Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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  Heart, Peace With God, Loss Of A Loved One

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.3633, Delphi Classics

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• I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

  Thomas Hardy

  Example, Stories, May

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.246, Courier Corporation

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