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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• 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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• Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

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  Integrity, Ethics, Morality

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

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

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  Pain, Drama, Episodes

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

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  Distance, Men

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

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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.

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  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!

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  Love You, Heart, Flames

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

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

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  Hope, Disappointment, Scar

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

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  Example, Stories, May

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

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  Men, Heaven, Religion

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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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• And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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  Criminals, Criminal Mind, Mind Opening

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

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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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• Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

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  Kindness, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.4243, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

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  Experience, Measurement, Intensity

  Thomas Hardy (1873). “A Pair of Blue Eyes”, p.273

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• And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak

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  Home, Fire, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

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  Love Is, Weakness

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.680, Open Road Media

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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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  Perfect, Humanity, Would Be

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.182, Thomas Hardy

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• George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

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  Dog, Taken, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.27, 谷月社

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• Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

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  Life, Strange, Deals

  Notebook, Feb. 1871

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