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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Views, Games

  Notebook, 1 Jan. 1902

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Life, Strange, Deals

  Notebook, Feb. 1871

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• We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Want, Mould

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.911, Delphi Classics

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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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• Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Men, Accepting

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

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• All romances end at marriage.

  Thomas Hardy

  Romance, Ends

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far From the Madding Crowd (Diversion Classics)”, p.321, Diversion Books

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Strong, Judgement, Sometimes

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

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• There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

  Thomas Hardy

  Pain, Eye, Lips

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1070, Delphi Classics

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• It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

  Thomas Hardy

  Pain, Imagination, Pleasure

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.69, e-artnow

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• The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

  Thomas Hardy

  Years, Office, Decision

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Thomas Hardy”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Death, Fear, Bed

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

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• That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Silence, Wonderful

  1872 Under the Greenwood Tree, ch.14.

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Kindness, Strange, Influence

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

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• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

  Thomas Hardy

  Men, Feelings, Language

  'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1874) ch. 81

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• There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

  Thomas Hardy

  Music, Ties, Friendly

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Under the Greenwood Tree: Works of Hardy”, p.44, 谷月社

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strength, Strong Women, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

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

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• If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

  Thomas Hardy

  Truth Is, Offense, Concealed

  Thomas Hardy (1920). “The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse”

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• Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

  Thomas Hardy

  Mean, Giving, Enemy

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• If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

  Thomas Hardy

  Single, Being Single, Doomed

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.492, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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

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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.

  Thomas Hardy

  Silence, Soul, Feelings

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.80, 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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• My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

  Thomas Hardy

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Thomas Hardy”, p.319, Wordsworth Editions

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• My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Littles, Tess Of The D Urbervilles

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics)”, p.95, Diversion Books

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• If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

  Thomas Hardy

  Poetry, World, Might

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.200, Penguin

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